Injury Report: All-encompassing injury thread (Zetterberg Update Post #400)

[The Zermanator]

I figured I'd start this thread so we can post updates on the ridiculous amount of injuries in 1 thread instead of 10. Maybe a mod can sticky this?

Latest from Khan:

http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index...74.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Highlights are:

- Jurco out minimum 10-14 days with rib injury, Wings are waiting for further test results.

- Helm not skating yet, but is using exercise bike.

- Weiss went to visit the doctor who did his hernia surgery. He's also not skating yet. Wings are hoping for some good news in 7-10 days.

- Gustavsson has practiced and expects to be back soon.

Click to read more...

 

[silkyjohnson50]

If we started this thread at the beginning of the season, it would likely be "All-encompassing injury thread part VI".

I don't even know what to say. I figured around the new year that there were no way the injuries would be as bad the 2nd half of the season. Boy was I wrong.

 

[SimplySolace]

**** off Weiss. They said 7-10 days, what? 7-10+ days ago?

 

[Amrcn Ftbll]

Should we just consider weiss done for the season? This is ridiculous.

 

[detredWINgs]

There's no point in even caring about Weiss's return. He's still injured. Then he has to start skating. Then he has to start practicing. Then he needs full-contact practice. Then he needs games. Then the rust needs to wear off. Then he needs to actually play like the top 6 forward he was signed to be, not the 4th liner he was playing like.

In short, even if he does come back, he'll barely be an upgrade.

 

[silkyjohnson50]

Legwand has already tied Weiss in points. In 22 less games.

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

Keep calm and Weisserman on!

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Legwand has already tied Weiss in points. In 22 less games.

Yuppers.

 

[joe89]

What we have today is kinda what I expect us to have the rest of the season. New trainers please.

 

[ap3x]

Weiss story is all about a huge joke!

 

[wtcwce]

Hopefully this Stephen Weiss signing doesn't turn into another Uwe Krupp...

 

[ShanahanMan]

As sad as it sounds, I had a bad feeling about him from pre-season game 1.

He just seemed so unbelievably lost out there on the ice.

 

[Chance on Chance]

looks like broken rib for Jurco

https://twitter.com/wingsfrontman/status/444141195699044353

 

[sehouse]

I'm not going to pass judgement on Weiss yet. We don't know how long he was skating with a sports hernia. All we knew was that he was having groin problems from the outset of the season. And scar tissue problems are always a possibility with such a tender area.

If he were completely healthy during the beginning of the year, and the sports hernia was something that just came out of nowhere, I would be more likely to trash him, but I feel that it is unfair to do so at this point in time.

Is it disappointing that he hasn't lived up to the contract so far? Sure. But to want to run him out of town without a truly accurate examination of his play while completely healthy is just going overboard.

 

[JmanWingsFan]

looks like broken rib for Jurco

https://twitter.com/wingsfrontman/status/444141195699044353

Why does it feel like our forwards have been targeted this year? I wouldn't mind debuting Mitch Callahan next time we face Columbus, and introduce him to Blake Comeau's face.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

It's sad to think that the Wings just cant seem to get healthy, Every time we think were getting there the bottom seems to drop out.

 

[HIFE]

Why does it feel like our forwards have been targeted this year? I wouldn't mind debuting Mitch Callahan next time we face Columbus, and introduce him to Blake Comeau's face.

Sounds good to me.

I'm more upset after reading Jurco's rib was broken. Damn that was such a flagrant crosschecking I agree now with others' posts, the NHL should review plays like that after the fact. Comeau is a ****er.

 

[odin1981]

Why does it feel like our forwards have been targeted this year? I wouldn't mind debuting Mitch Callahan next time we face Columbus, and introduce him to Blake Comeau's face.

Callahan would get wrecked. He found that out last year when he tried to play "tough guy" in the ahl. The most you could hope for him would be to be a agitating presence that would draw a penalty. But we really don't need another fake tough gator getting his ass kicked every time he tries to man up for the team and energizing the other team.

 

[Crymson]

Weiss and Helm skated before practice today.

 

[detredWINgs]

Callahan would get wrecked. He found that out last year when he tried to play "tough guy" in the ahl. The most you could hope for him would be to be a agitating presence that would draw a penalty. But we really don't need another fake tough gator getting his ass kicked every time he tries to man up for the team and energizing the other team.

No reason he can't be another Kirk Maltby.

 

[detredWINgs]

Why does it feel like our forwards have been targeted this year? I wouldn't mind debuting Mitch Callahan next time we face Columbus, and introduce him to Blake Comeau's face.

I don't really see how Callahan would deter anyone. He's not a fighter at the professional level, he's not big, and he doesn't have a reputation. Sure, he'd be nice to have for a variety of reasons, but I don't think having Callahan around - or anyone else really - is going to deter Comeau from cross-checking Jurco.

 

[The Zermanator]

The only guy on the Wings who has good size and fighting ability is Ericsson. Unfortunately he rarely fights. It'd be nice if he stepped up every once in a while when somebody (like Neil and Comeau) takes a run at his teammates.

 

[danincanada]

Weiss story is all about a huge joke!

I hope that joke is done when he finally gets healthy.

Comeau was a real rat last game. I don't know how he got away with that cross check on Jurco. Jared Cowen concussed Datsyuk and Helm this year with illegal plays. It doesn't help us but at least Comeau got suspended for one of his.

 

[silkyjohnson50]

I think Smith might try to go with Comeau next game. Doubt Comeau will drop them though.

 

[odin1981]

The only guy on the Wings who has good size and fighting ability is Ericsson. Unfortunately he rarely fights. It'd be nice if he stepped up every once in a while when somebody (like Neil and Comeau) takes a run at his teammates.

Our defense is bad enough atm with all our centers out. We do not need one of only three good defenders going off for 5-10 minutes.

In all honesty the only guy (not that he is a tough guy) I could live with going off the ice for defending a teammate would be smith. He isn't a great fighter but he can hold his own.